What is China’s traditional culture?

The order of all the festivals in China is: New Year's Eve (the last day of the twelfth lunar month), Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month), Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month), Cold Food Festival (the day before Qingming Festival), Qingming Festival (solar calendar: around April 5th), Shangsi Festival (lunar calendar: the third day of March), Dragon Boat Festival (lunar calendar: the fifth day of May), Qixi Festival (lunar calendar: seventh day of July), Mid-Autumn Festival (lunar calendar: August 10th) 5), Double Ninth Festival (lunar calendar: September 9th), Hanyi Festival (lunar calendar: October 1st), Laba Festival (lunar calendar: eighth day of twelfth lunar month), Xiaonian (twelfth lunar month 23rd ~ ~ twelfth lunar month 24th), etc.

1. New Year’s Eve (the last day of the twelfth lunar month)

Because it often falls on the 29th or 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, it is also called New Year’s Eve. It is the most important day in China. one of the traditional festivals. Folks pay the most attention to it. Every household is busy or cleaning their courtyards, welcoming their ancestors home for the New Year, and offering rice cakes and three animals as offerings.

2. Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month)

Commonly known as the "New Year's Day", the traditional names are New Year, New Year, Tianla, and New Year. It is also known verbally as Du Sui and Qing. New Year, Chinese New Year. Chinese people have celebrated the Spring Festival for at least 4,000 years. Among the people, the Spring Festival in the old traditional sense refers to the twelfth month of the twelfth lunar month or the stove sacrifice on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month, until the 19th day of the first lunar month. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but it usually does not end until at least the fifteenth day of the first lunar month (the Lantern Festival).

3. Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month)

Also known as the Shangyuan Festival, Xiaozhengyue, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, it falls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year and is a Chinese Spring Festival custom. The last important season. The first month of the lunar calendar is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called "night" "xiao", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon of the year is called the Lantern Festival.

The Lantern Festival custom has been dominated by the warm and festive lantern viewing custom since ancient times. Traditional customs include going out to admire the moon, lighting lanterns and setting off flames, guessing lantern riddles, eating Yuanxiao, pulling rabbit lanterns, etc. In addition, many local Lantern Festivals also include traditional folk performances such as dragon lantern dancing, lion dancing, stilt walking, land boat rowing, Yangko dancing, and Taiping drum playing.

4. Cold Food Festival (the day before Qingming Festival)

It is 105 days after the winter solstice in the lunar calendar and one or two days before Qingming Festival. On the first day of the festival, no fireworks are allowed and only cold food is eaten. In the development of later generations, customs such as sweeping sacrifices, outings, swings, Cuju, lead hooks, and cockfighting were gradually added. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than two thousand years and was once known as the largest folk festival in China. Cold Food Festival is the only traditional Chinese festival named after food customs.

5. Qingming Festival (Gregorian calendar: around April 5)

Also called the Outing Festival, it falls at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and one of the most important sacrificial festivals. It is a day for sweeping tombs and worshiping ancestors. The traditional Qingming Festival of the Chinese nation began around the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Through the development and evolution of history, Qingming has extremely rich connotations, and different customs have been developed in various places. The basic themes are sweeping tombs, worshiping ancestors, and outings.

6. Dragon Boat Festival (lunar calendar: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month)

According to "Jingchu Sui Shi Ji" records, because midsummer climbs high, Shunyang is above, and May is midsummer. The first noon day is the day of good weather for climbing Shunyang, so the fifth day of May is also called the "Duan Yang Festival"; in addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Zhengyang Festival", Dragon Day Festival, Noon Day Festival, May Festival , Dragon Boat Festival, Yulan Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc.

The main customs of Dragon Boat Festival include eating rice dumplings and racing dragon boats. The custom of eating rice dumplings has been popular in China for thousands of years; dragon boat racing has been popular in China. It is very popular along the southern coast. After spreading abroad, it was deeply loved by people from all over the world and formed an international competition.

7. Mid-Autumn Festival (lunar calendar: August 15th)

The Mid-Autumn Festival begins. In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, it became popular in the Song Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become one of the traditional Chinese festivals as famous as the Spring Festival. Influenced by Chinese culture, the Mid-Autumn Festival has also been a traditional festival in some East and Southeast Asian countries, especially the local overseas Chinese. Since 2008, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national statutory holiday. On May 20, 2006, the State Council included it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.

The Mid-Autumn Festival has included worshiping the moon, admiring the moon, and Customs such as worshiping the moon, eating moon cakes, appreciating osmanthus flowers, and drinking osmanthus wine have been passed down to this day and have lasted for a long time. The Mid-Autumn Festival uses the full moon to signify people's reunion, expressing their longing for their hometown and missing their relatives, and praying for a good harvest and happiness. A colorful and precious cultural heritage. The Mid-Autumn Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Spring Festival and the Qingming Festival are also known as the four traditional festivals in China.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia_Chinese Traditional Festivals